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Re: Endian swapping with C code on ARM

From: "Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo at libero dot it>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:05:38 +0200
Subject: Re: Endian swapping with C code on ARM
References: <20040709004757.088F34F3D0@ws7-6.us4.outblaze.com> <1089365023.8278.9.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> <40EEAB2C.40500@gnat.com>

Robert Dewar wrote:

> Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a built-in for endian
> swapping. Many architectures have specialized instructions
> or effective sequences for this common operation.

Agreed. A builtin and some magic to recognize common shift/or sequences to do
that manually, so that it can optimized to the builtin.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

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